Chapter 22 The Djinn (1)

The First to move after the announcer had announced the start of the semi-final match was Cassim. Just after the announcer said "Fight," he quickly used his sabre and slash ki blades aimed at Sinbad quickly. After seeing the ki blades approaching, Sinbad smirked as he quickly dodged the edges by using his quick reflexes to narrowly avoided the ki blades.

Sinbad had expected to see this technique from Massic/Cassim from every fight he was in earlier. When Sinbad had first, saw Massic in the rounds before this match, he had already expected that they would fight eventually as Sinbad saw that most of the other contestants. However, having massive bodies with big muscles is relatively weak and very skilled in using their weapons.

So aside from Massic/Cassim, Sinbad couldn't see any other contender in this competition worthy for him to fight within his full strength.

Or at the very least, be able to let him use his trump card, which was Baal, the djinn that Sinbad had gotten in the dungeon near the Parthevia border.

Since although nobody knew except the soldiers, citizens, and high members of Parthevia. No one knew that he was the one who was able to conquer the first dungeon, which in turn made him the first-ever dungeon capture.

Outside of Parthevia, the news hadn't spread far about Sinbad's information just yet about his looks and name.

And even if they did know that it was he who conquered the dungeon. Most people had only known his looks and not his name, which most ordinary citizens wouldn't know about due to Parthevia's limitation of this information. So he can easily hide if he doesn't show off his looks and doesn't announce his name since he also.

After Sinbad had dodged the ki blades, he then quickly rushed towards Cassim. According to Baal, while activating the magic tool he was currently wearing, a magic tool was called Thunder Steps.

This magic tool called Thunder Steps was one of Sinbad's treasures in Baal's dungeons.

This magic tool allows Sinbad to gain increased physical strength and speed. And aside from that, this magic tool is imbued with Baal's magoi, similar to Baal; this magic tool can also produce lightning.

And so, due to him activating this Magic tool, the speed of Sinbad's speed and strength had been significantly enhanced. It caused some lighting sparks to appear slightly in his foot, which almost became unnoticed by everyone in the stadium except by Alibaba.

Miriam Pov

After seeing Sinbad and Cassim's fight, he quickly focused on the battle; it made Miriam, who was reading with him before, pout. She said, " Hey Alibaba-san, why did you stop reading the book? We were getting to the good part already." Alibaba then, while still observing the battle, said, "Oh, Sorry, Miriam, how about you play with mother first for a while since I want to observe Cassim's match for now against that interesting contestant. And don't you also want to see your brother's battle since from the earlier battles, he was able to finish the battles quickly."

Miriam then just replied after thinking for a bit about what Alibaba said: "I do want to see my brother fighting at his full strength, but I doubt that Big Bro's opponent could be a match for him since Big Bro is the strongest person I know aside from Dad, and Uncle Rosman as well." Alibaba chuckled a bit at this and then said to Miriam while patting her head and looking at Cassim and Sinbad's battle on the field.

" Don't just immediately underestimate your Brother's opponent just yet. After all, I see that Cassim's opponent is pretty strong as well, and although I know, you can't sense it. Still, your opponent's brother seems to be wearing a magic tool, which is the sandals his currently wearing, so I myself don't think this would be an easy fight, unlike the earlier rounds."

When Miriam heard what Alibaba just said, she thought it carefully as although she was very confident in her brother's strength. She had heard from his brother that Alibaba had a powerful perception of everything, which included being able to estimate a person's combat strength to an incredible degree that Alibaba according to her brother that Alibaba once had been able to identify a spy in the palace with just a few looks at him.

And due to her knowing that information and not wanting to annoy Alibaba by asking again for him to play with her, Miriam nodded back at this. She said, "Well, ok then Alibaba, but you have to make it up to me later, and just because you're a prince, you can forget about me; besides wouldn't you want to hang out with a cutie like me? That what dad said."

Casino Pov

When Casino, who was beside both Alibaba and his daughter, heard this, he almost dropped the liquor he was drinking while guarding Alibaba. And as he was about to properly explain to Alibaba what Miriam meant since even if he and his family was close to the Saluja family now, he knew their social standing was still far apart, so he thought that there was no way that her daughter could ever get with Alibaba. Also, he slightly regretted joking around with Miriam back then when he was drunk as he remembered the exact details of that event.

Casino Flashback

When Casino had already worked in the palace for almost a year back then, and on that day after having a party with some of the other guards of the palace and some old friends from the Slum, Casino arrived at his house bit drunk. Ever since he had gotten his job in the temple, Casino had slowly managed to control himself while being drunk and wasn't being violent to both Miriam and Cassim when he was drunk.

Although he thought of this at the time, he had thought, 'Yeah honestly, that kid could probably fight back with me now even if that kid is still only 5-year-old I can't believe that kid can fight in the level of an apprentice squire in the palace, and probably a below-average warrior in strength although that is still weak in terms of his body strength being still that of a 5-year-olds after all.'

'Ugh, if that kid grows up, he'll be probably able to beat me easily, I guess, base on his talent on that sabre, which is better than me and the thing called ki that the third prince had told me back then. Although It's kinda disappointing that I don't have that type of talent, unlike that brat, huh, Ki might as well be called magic at this point since from the third prince's Uncle who the prince had also thought how to use the ki, is potent energy although not as diverse as magic.'

And as he thought of this while walking a bit wobbly to that gate of his mansion. And as the guard was currently greeting him in his Mansion, which he bought after receiving a ton of money from his salary working as the personal guard of Alibaba. A small figure suddenly tackled him saying.

"Suprise, where were you, dad? You've been gone for hours. Big bro and I had been waiting for hours for your promotional party." When Casino heard this, he laughed for a bit as he lifted her and said to his youngest daughter Miriam who was hugging his legs with her cute expression.

"Oh my little princess, you're actually here, huh. Well, sorry, dad here had gone out with some of his friends tonight; besides that, where's Cassim, by the way, since I thought you said that he was waiting for me for our little party."

Miriam then said immediately, "Oh, big bro had gone out of the house and trained again, and he also said that we could just celebrate this party anyway, and I think Alibaba-san.... did say that he'll come to the party tomorrow with brother since he called us with the magic tool he gave to brother back then."

Hearing this, Casino said to his daughter in a clearly drunken state and not in the clearest state of mind, "Ohhh, are you perhaps interested in the third prince, huh eh, my little princess. I heard that the third prince already had received a fiance a few months ago, and according to the rumours, she is a pretty good looking one as well. Aside from that, it seems she's a princess from the Kou Empire; that's one reason why our Balbadd kingdoms are getting better these last few months. But I'm sure that my cute little princess here has a perfect chance with the third prince."

And after Miriam, who was still about the same age as Alibaba, heard this, she became redder as she said, "What the hell, dad? Why do you think that? I wouldn't say I like Alibaba-san like that. I think of him the same way as big brother; I honestly can't believe I know this already; big bro was right. You were a terrible dad a few years ago; I probably picked this knowledge up when you told big brother and me."

And as Miriam said this with a roguish attitude similar to her big brother's attitude. And this side often is hidden by Miriam due to her growing up now with the teachings of a private tutor hired by his father. Since due to him and his brother now being semi Nobles in status that had to at least show a proper attitude with meeting other Nobles. But unlike Miriam, Cassim really didn't care about all that stuff and remained acting like a rouge.

Flashback End

When Casino thought of that, he suddenly heard Alibaba saying "Hahaha your so cute Miriam, well laughing aside I do admit your pretty cute but aside from that sure how about you come with Cassim and me Dad, and Bro Sabhmad this week to a visit the Imuchakk kingdom for some business negotiations."

When Miriam heard this, her expression started brightening up as she said excitedly "Oh really you better don't take that back Alibaba-san since this is gonna be our first time going out to see right."

Then after saying that Miriam then started to now return to watching the battle which caused Alibaba to chuckle looking at her sudden change of the reaction. Then after that, Alibaba started to observe back Sinbad and Cassim's battle while Casino who was behind them was just relieved seeing that Alibaba didn't get offended by her daughter's words earlier.

So now looking back at Sinbad's and Cassim's fight just after Sinbad had activated the magic tool he slashed with his scimitar towards Cassim which was dodged by Cassim by enhancing his legs with his ki to enhance his speed to dodge the slash. And then after dodging the scimitar slash, Cassim covered his own sabre with a strong amount of ki in his body which made the power of his counter attack towards Sinbad to be really strong which then managed to even pierce through the armour Sinbad was wearing inside his clothes which he had gotten from Baal's dungeon similar to the sandals he had gotten.